Normal School for Colored Girls
Miner Normal School | |
Miner Normal School in 2008 | |
| Location | 2565 Georgia Ave., NW., Washington, D.C. |
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| Coordinates | 38°55′24″N 77°1′21″W / 38.92333°N 77.02250°W |
| Built | 1913 |
| Architect | Leon E. Dessez; Snowden Ashford |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 91001490 |
| Added to NRHP | October 11, 1991 |
Normal School for Colored Girls was established in Washington, D.C., in 1851 as an institution of learning and training for young African-American women, especially to train teachers. It was the first normal school in the District of Columbia and the fourth in the United States.
In 1913, when it was called Miner Normal School, it built a Colonial Revival school building on Georgia Avenue NW. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 1929, Congress accredited the school as the four-year Miner Teachers College.
In 1955, the college merged with Wilson Teachers College, a teaching school for white students, to become the District of Columbia Teachers College. That college would merge with two others in 1977 to become the University of the District of Columbia.